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Reduced price due to backcover inlay being wavy
Rare 1988 Earache cd with two albums and 4 bonus tracks. One of the first Earache cd release with catalouge number MOSH 8CD
Scum
As a rallying call for what seemed like millions of bands to follow, not to mention the launching point for the varying careers of Justin Broadrick, Nick Bullen, Mitch Harris, Lee Dorrian, and Bill Steer, Scum deserves its reputation alone. But it’s also fun to listen to — a strange word to use, but no doubt about it, the album has its own brand of rock & roll kicks taken to an almost ridiculous extreme. Split between the original lineup, with Broadrick and Bullen, and the next one, with Dorrian, Steer, and Shane Embury, Scum is a portrait of a place, time, and state of mind. Opener “Multinational Corporations” is the deep breath taken before the plunge: skittering cymbals, low-key feedback squalls, Bullen’s rasped hatred — and then all hell breaks loose. The riffs by both the Broadrick/Bullen and Steer/Embury teams use hyperconcentrated Black Sabbath-via-Motörhead-and-Metallica approaches as starting points, but the moorings are cut loose when everyone concentrates on nothing but speed itself. The combination of hyperspeed drums, crazed but still just clear enough guitar and bass blurs, and utterly unintelligible vocals takes the “loud hard fast rules” conclusion to a logical extreme that the band’s followers could only try to equal instead of better. Interspersed throughout all this on various songs are more obviously deliberate constructions — parts of the title track, say, or the focused chug-and-stomp start of “Siege of Power.” They act as just enough pacing for the rampages elsewhere, where unrelenting, intense sound becomes its own part of weird ambient music, textures above all else. It’s little surprise the free jazz/noise wing latched onto Scum as much as wound-up-as-hell headbangers did worldwide. That practically no song survives past two minutes — much less one — is all part of brusque do-the-job-and-do-no-more appeal. The most legendary number as a result: “You Suffer (But Why?),” running at a mere two seconds.
From Enslavement To Obliteration
Its a familiar story. Four young men with astounding clarity of vision are brought together by the spirit of creative lifeforce and combine their common love of music, in the process recording an album which becomes a yardstick for a genre, the starting point for a new musical movement, an awakening of creative consciousness, a defining moment in the artistic oeuvre. No one involved with this album could have possibly imagined the influence they would all have on extreme music. Vocalist Lee Dorrian now fronts Cathedral. Guitarist Bill Steer went to Carcass full time. Drummer Mick Harris helped create the almighty Godflesh and a plethora of other experimental extreme musical projects. Bass player Shane Embury has stayed with Napalm Death, and has been a leading figure in shaping the direction of most things extreme since. This album put Earache Records on the mainstream horizon when the album debuted at #1 on the UK Indie Charts. This led Earache to be featured on the NME front cover and led to radio sessions with noted BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel.
Track list:
Track listing:
1. Multinational Corporations
2. Instinct Of Survival
3. The Kill
4. Scum
5. Caught In A Dream
6. Polluted Minds
7. Sacrificed
8. Stage Of Power
9. Control
10. Born On Your Knees
11. Human garbage
12. You suffer
13. Life?
14. Prison Without Walls
15. Point Of No Return
16. Negative Approach
17. Success?
18. Deceiver
19. C.S.
20. Parasites
21. Pseudo Youth
22. Divine Death
23. As The Machine Rolls On
24. Common Enemy
25. Moral Crusade
26. Stigmatized
27. M.A.D.
28. Dragnet
29. Evolved As One
30. It’s A Man’s World
31. Lurid Fairytale
32. Private Death
33. Impressions
34. Unchallenged Hate
35. Uncertainty Blurs The Vision
36. Cock Rock Alienation
37. Retreat To Nowhere
38. Think For A Minute
39. Display To Me
40. From Enslavement To Obliteration
41. Blind To The Truth
42. Social Sterility
43. Emotional Suffocation
44. Practice What You Preach
45. Inconceivable
46. Worlds Apart
47. Obstinate Direction
48. Mentally Murdered
49. Sometimes
50. Make Way
51. Musclehead
52. Your Achievement
53. Dead
54. Morbid Deceiver